i want to thank everybody here. incredible people. thank you, and see you around. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seats until the president has departed the east room. [applause] president trump earlier today in the east room in the white house, part of the release of on russian report interference in the 2016 election. the report released this morning, 11:00, posted online, delivered to congress. we have a link online at c-span.org, all 448 pages.

you can see it there. we have been getting reaction on video from twitter throughout the afternoon. the president and first lady headed to mar-a-lago in florida for the weekend. at some point, in flight. perhaps they are arriving shortly. the president tweeting this can read tweeting jesse watters from the five on fox, donald trump was being framed, he fought back, that is not obstruction. i have the right to end the whole -- the whole witchhunt, i could've fired everyone if i wanted. i chose not to be at i had the right to use executive privilege. and i didn't. that is from president trump. we are also keeping an ion what the democratic candidates are saying for 2020. here is kiersten ginger lebron theng, we cannot trust hand-picked attorney general to be transparent about the mueller reports. congress needs to see it in full. the public needs to know whether trump obstructed justice, calling on barr to release the report.

a number of candidates have petitions online. kamala harris, congress needs to see the unredacted mueller report and all of the investigations underlying evidence. another tweeted this, the mueller report is a disturbing if not completely surprising collection of evidence that shows the president putting -- put his own interests ahead of a countries. it demonstrates why we need to change the channel in 2020. far fromastro, exonerating anyone, the special counsel report shows disgraceful behavior by donald trump and his inner circle. elizabeth warren, congress needs to see the full unredacted report and just a look ahead to what we will see in the coming weeks, andrew from politico news, the dictionary democrat deal it -- gearing up for a blockbuster grilling of barr. promising consequences for contradicting mueller on the office of legal counsel opinion. there will be two hearings with the attorney general that we know of.

the attorney general spoke of it this morning. that hearing, house judiciary committee second. ahead of that, the senate judiciary come on may 1. look for those live on the c-span networks. also look for more live coverage coming up tonight at 8:00 eastern, reaction from you as well coming up tonight. we will be joined by jen david ohlin and thomas dupre, former deputy assistant attorney general for -- in the george w. bush administration at 8:00 eastern tonight. our coverage continuing tomorrow morning, 7:00 eastern with the fullngton journal and a three-hour program including reaction from a number of members of congress. we hope you can join us for that as well. we have been bringing you come as we mentioned, video throughout the day. we heard from two key democrats, jerry nadler the chair of the house judiciary committee, and also adam schiff, the chair of the house intelligence committee.